NVIDIA Driver 595.71.05 Container Image

Description

The NVIDIA Driver container image provides NVIDIA GPU drivers in a containerized environment. This image is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and includes both the open-source and proprietary NVIDIA kernel modules 595.71.05, along with the necessary user-space tools.

It is providing precompiled binaries for the NVIDIA GPU Operator or for manual driver deployment on container hosts, allowing for faster deployment.

Usage

To deploy this container image, use the NVIDIA GPU Operator Helm chart version 26.3.1 or later, following these steps.

Add the arguments --set driver.repository=registry.suse.com/third-party/nvidia --set driver.usePrecompiled=true and --set driver.version=<driver-branch> to the helm install command. <driver-branch> is the major version of the GPU driver (such as 595, 590 or 580).

For K3s or RKE2, the Node Resource Interface (NRI) plug-in should be enabled by using --set cdi.nriPluginEnabled=true.

As an example:

helm install --wait gpu-operator \
     -n gpu-operator --create-namespace \
     nvidia/gpu-operator \
     --version=v26.3.1 \
     --set cdi.nriPluginEnabled=true \
     --set driver.repository=registry.suse.com/third-party/nvidia \
     --set driver.usePrecompiled=true \
     --set driver.version=<driver-branch>

Secure Boot must be disabled on the host to allow the container to load kernel modules.

This driver container image requires the full kernel-default / kernel-default-64kb RPM package to be installed on the host. Using the kernel-default-base RPM package is not supported, and the driver container will fail to initialize properly.

Licensing

SPDX-License-Identifier: NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE

This documentation and the build recipe are licensed as NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE. The container itself contains various software components under various open source licenses listed in the associated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).

This image is a tech preview. Do not use it for production. Your feedback is welcome. Please report any issues to the SUSE Bugzilla.